Good morning, Whitewater.
Our month needs with a beautiful Saturday: sunny, a high of eighty-two, and winds of five to ten mph.
Best, really, to plan carefully before toppling a tower. Amateurs demolish 100-foot tower using power tool, almost get crushed is a case in point:
On this day in the last year of the nineteenth century, a Bible society is founded after a meeting in Beaver Dam:
1899 – The Gideons International Founded
On this night two salesmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, crossed paths a second time, in Beaver Dam. The pair had first met eight months before in the Central Hotel in Boscobel and discussed the need for some way to provide Christian support to traveling businessmen. During this second meeting in Beaver Dam the two decided to “get right at it. Start the ball rolling and follow it up.” They invited their professional contacts to an organizational meeting to be held in Janesville on July 1, 1899, at which the organization was formally named and chartered. By 1948, The Gideons had distributed over 15 million bibles world-wide. View more information about the founding of the Gideons elsewhere at wisconsinhistory.org [Source: Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles]